Zay is on the way to Jordan Valley or Salt. If you first take road signs to Sweileh, then to Salt, you'll eventually find Zay there too. If you go on Friday you'll find the whole of Amman there bbq-ing and littering.... i suggest you go on a school day :)
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 |  on December 4, 2005 |
there are many different areas just 15 minutes from Amman that you can drive to that completely change your surroundings from city to country.... it's a nice change sometimes Zay is on the way to Jordan Valley or Salt. If you first take road signs to Sweileh, then to Salt, you'll eventually find Zay there too. If you go on Friday you'll find the whole of Amman there bbq-ing and littering.... i suggest you go on a school day :) |
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| Wonderful weaving | | |
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 |  on March 11, 2005 |
Whilst you can buy the work of the Bani Hamida Bedouin weavers in Amman, a visit to their headquarters near Mukawir is another experience entirely. Here you will not only find a huge selection of this wonderful work (the warp-faced flatweave style is uniquely Bedouin), you will also see the great piles of dyed but unwoven wool waiting to be collected - the weavers work in their own homes - and observe a very successful cottage enterprise at work. This is more than just another shopping trip. Prices reflect the value of the work, which is of the highest quality (eg$75 for a piece 70x55cms) Posted by leyle |
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| A Byzantine road map | | |
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| on March 12, 2005 |
Another detour off the King's Highway will bring you to the isolated Byzantine religious complex at Umm-ar-Resas - the most important section of which is housed nowadays in an ugly yellow hangar. Inside, however, are splendid mosaics in amazingly good condition. In the largest of these, scenes of rural and river life are framed by images of the cities of the the West and East banks of the River Jordan, many of whose names are still in use today - Jerusalem, Nablus, Gaza, Madaba, while others, such as modern Kerak and Amman are identifiable by their Roman-era names, Charach Mouba and Philadelphia. Posted by leyle |
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| Salome's ghost | | |
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| on March 11, 2005 |
Continue down the road from the Bani Hamida shop and, rising up in front of you, you will see the strange flat-topped mound of Mukawir, site of Herod the Great's palace of Machaerus, where Salome danced and claimed the head of John the Baptist as her price. Virtually nothing remains to be seen of the palace and the climb to the top is a stiff one, but the views of the Dead Sea and the surrounding countryside are spectacular and the still quiet of the place has a magic all of its own. The road to Mukawir is signposted off the King's Highway about 20km south of Madaba. posted by leyle |
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| Feynan Eco-lodge  | | |
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| on January 28, 2006 |
Visitors staying at the lodge can explore the area using several hiking trails. The area also shows evidence of human occupation stretching back 10,000 years. Copper was first smelted in this area. You can request a copper mine tour. |
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| Jarash Festival | | |
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 |  on August 18, 2003 |
Festival of Jarash: So Famous in Jordan! Singers, Dancers, and show business famous persons! It is like the Beit Al Din Festival in Lebanon and the Bousra Festival in Syria! Each of those three countries has its own place for festivals. The same idea, but local differences! Also should say: any of the foreign groups which come to present in Middle East choose one of those three locations. For example the Russian Ballet team came several times in the season of Festival to the three location I told you about! |
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| on June 19, 2007 |
Ajloun Woodland Reserve is located in the Ajloun Highlands, around the extension of a long valley known as Wadi Ain Zubia (13 square k.m.). It consists of a Mediterranean hill country, dominated by open woodlands of Oak and Pistachio. The rich greenery of Ajloun has made it a popular spot for picnickers and hikers. The RSCN have marked paths for you to walk on... a one hour walk that you can do alone, and a 4 hour one that you do with a guide. It will cost you 25 JD's for the guide. Let me warn you that if you do not take a guide, do not wander off the path. I did :( I ended up getting lost for 2 hours and walking to a highway where i asked a farmer to drop me off at the entrance again. The park rangers were not impressed. |
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| Wadi Rum | | |
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 on March 15, 2003 |
A visit to Jordan is incomplete without a visit to Wadi Rum. Only an hour from Aqaba this vast desert provides a stunning backdrop to desert adventures. On the day we visited, only 10 tourists had been in total. The threat of war has reduced tourist numbers to a trickle, which is sad for the locals who often rely on work as desert guides, but for tourists, there is none of that pre-packaged battery hen type trip which is so often experienced when travelling abroad. We were dropped of at the rest house by our driver and allocated a young Beduin lad (Khaled) as our driver and escort. Khaled informed us that he was one of 27 children he attributed the success of his father to his regular intake of camel's milk. We visited Lawrence's spring, and the Sunset site where Khaled made a small camp fire and brewed a pot of tea. We sat around the fire (by this time his friend had joined us) and drank tea and ate pistachios whilst putting the world to right. The sky was blue and clear, the wind light, and we sat and savoured the silence, watching eagles soaring in the evening sky. Magic... Before we left the Wadi Rum area, the chief of Police insisted that we take tea with him in the rest house. (Very clean with all mod cons). He informed us that as the number of tourists was dwindling by the day, it was important that he speak to us all to maintain his language skills. It really puts us to shame, how many Chief Constables in England can speak Arabic, French, German, Spanish ?? Not many I think. We spent a leisurely hour learning about each others lives, jobs, and families before bidding farewell. Next time we visit we will definately stay overnight as I feel we really missed out on a wonderful experience here. Petra has it's man made wonders but Wadi Rum - built by God and loved by the Bedouin far surpasses the beauty of Petra. |
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| More mosaics on the Madaba plateau | | |
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| on July 6, 2005 |
Khirbet al Mukhayat is roughly between Madaba and Mount Nebo on a side road; it was originally the village near to the large Byzantine monastery of which the present Mount Nebo church is part of the basilica There are several churches, mostly pretty ruined. There is a beautiful mosaic in the "Martyrs' Church" of Saints Lot and Procupius but there are also 2 specatcular mosaics in Preacher John's church which are less well known One of the mosaics was placed above the other one which was completely covered and unknown until the newer one was removed for restoring. The figures on the older mosaic have thus escaped the iconoclasts. These mosaics are very attractive. To get there you would need to take a taxi or hitch from the main road. The road to Khirbet al Mukhayat turns to the left a couple of kilometers from Madaba when going towards Mount Nebo. It's not very far. Posted by Lulu |
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| Wadi Rum | | |
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 |  on December 4, 2006 |
What a sensation, being drove in an old 4WD in that unique landscape. That lasted for only a couple of hours, but it was enough to feel the desert, the adventure of vehicles sunken in the sand, the relief and hospitality of a Bedouin tent, and the comfortable expectation of a shower and cold drinks waiting us at the hotel. And what a surprise, the happiness and joy of my wife, facing the wind under the burning sun. But life is hard there, even with the income from the tourists. |
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